The basic idea of this reading was to tell the reader how slavery came about and how slavery and racism are still strong in America and has been for such a long time.
The slavery in Americas started with and when Columbus came over to the Americas by capturing the indians and making them work for him. Then the story tells about a colony in North America and how they were struggling to make it and how they contemplated on taking the indians as salves like Columbus. Then in 1619 a million black slaves were brought from Africa to South America to be slaves and so this is what gave the people of Jamestown the idea to go to Africa to get slaves for their crops. They brought them back in by the shipfulls and sold and made profits off them. Also they were treated like property so if you were caught stealing them or they ran away they would be caught and brought back for their punishment.
1. Why would the Africans not fight when people came to their country and try to take control of them?
2. When they were on the farms or plantations why did they not rise up and fight their way out from their one or two masters?
My personal response to this is that this is terrible i mean in every country their are cases like this but now it has to stop because if we can not learn to live with each other now are we ever going to be able to live with each other and really there is no difference between anybody because we all have a ideas and good one just because someone is a different color then the majority doesnt mean you can inslave them and make them do all of your work. So we have to stop and learn from the passed so this will not happen again.
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